When to start pregnancy journal
IM PREGNANT AGAIN 🥰 | Pregnancy Journal Set Up
hey guys and welcome back to my Channel
today I'm setting up a pregnancy journal
for myself we found out a couple weeks
ago that we're gonna have another baby
and yeah pretty exciting so obviously
first thing I did was I bought a journal
to start setting it up for my pregnancy
journal and all that fun stuff I'm so
excited
and yeah so right now I am for weeks and
like five days maybe which is really
really like early so you guys aren't
gonna be seeing this for like months so
this video will have been filmed months
in advance if that makes sense anyways I
just wanted to show you guys what I'm
gonna do in the beginning pages of my
journal and kind of like setting it all
up and what I plan on tracking all that
jazz so yeah if you guys want to have
like a pregnancy update like a journal
pregnancy update every like two weeks or
so I wanted to do that but only if you
guys want me to so let me know down
below or just like this video and yeah
we could do like a little journaling
session and I can update you guys on
what's happening but that's what I had
in mind so let me know if you guys want
to do that so the journal that I got is
this Archer and Olive notebook it was on
sale for $15 I think it was like on
clearance so I got this one and it's
very pretty
obviously I don't know the gender of the
baby yet so I mean it's not very gender
neutral it's kind of girly but even so
like it's also a pregnancy book so like
that's kind of girl
anyways but you open it up it's first of
all this is like the most like high
quality notebook I've ever had
it's so like sturdy and it's just really
nice and on the inside it has like this
pretty paper cover oh and there's a
pocket I don't even know that that's
cool and it has two ribbons and then on
the outside it has like this golden
stuff so yeah let's just get into it and
start setting it up so as soon as I
started filming this part my neighbor
came outside and she started talking on
the phone for like an hour so I'm just
gonna do a little voiceover in the
beginning of the video and then on the
next half you will hear me talking like
in real time but anyways these are the
markers and pens and I'm using just some
micron fine liners and to tombow brush
pens in like a brown color and right now
I'm just writing in my name in the
notebook with my micron fine liner so
the first page of notebook is obviously
the cover page and it's going to be
pretty minimalistic in the beginning you
guys will see what I do with it later I
add some stickers and stuff but yeah so
the first thing I did was a pregnancy
countdown so above I have the conception
date which obviously I don't exactly
know when that was so it's just kind of
a guess and then I have the due date
which I'm not 100% sure if that's right
it's just what my app says I haven't
gone to the doctor yet so it's just kind
of a guess and then the rest of the
stuff down below is the dates that I
will be turning each week if that makes
sense so I will cross off each week as I
get there and yeah that's basically what
this spread is
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so the next spread is my pregnancy at a
glance so basically it's kind of like a
year at a glance but it's just the 10
months that I will be pregnant so I'm
basically just writing down little
calendars like I would with your typical
year at a glance spread and then I have
a key down below that I will use to mark
down important events and milestones if
you will
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so I didn't realize that I just forgot
that I was gonna have a key and colors
so I quickly grabbed all of the muted
tones that I have because I want to keep
it like earthy and kind of going with
like this color scheme so I'm gonna have
one two three four five six seven so I'm
gonna highlight these
things with this color and then with the
other colors I'm going to highlight the
date depending on like the event that's
going on so
okay so I have the conception date I
think I mean no one ever really knows
what the conception date is I'm just
gonna do this one and then my ovulation
I'm sorry this is a little personal you
guys if you don't if you aren't like
comfortable with this information I'm
very sorry that was my ovulation date I
expected period date was the 18th and my
due date right now
is the 29th of June which is so close to
bears due date which was the fourth of
July so they're gonna have a close
they're gonna have birthdays close
together which is kind of cool and then
I don't know any other stuff I haven't
made an appointment yet because it's
pretty early I usually don't go for my
first appointment until I'm like 12
weeks so got a long way to go so this is
the next spread it's a baby named spread
you already have a couple of baby names
in mind but I will tell you guys those
later
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so I know I said I wasn't gonna use any
color but now that I have I might as
well just stick with these colors
so I have girl names boy names gender
predictions and the gender reveal so in
here I'm gonna like tally up the like
I'm out of people that think it's a boy
and you know people think it's a girl
the next thing I have is a milestones
spread so it's just a bunch of
milestones that I'm going to reach at
some point and then I'm just gonna write
the date so up here I have took a test
and I took a test on the October 15th
2019 so for the rest of these I'm just
gonna write in the date
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so after I started making the boxes I
thought it would be cooler to outline
them in color so I'm gonna do that and
and I don't really normally what I'm
gonna do about that maybe you'll just
so far I'm like so pleased with this
notebook and I'm totally getting one for
next year I usually use a dingbats
notebook and like one of the main
reasons why I stick with them is because
their notebooks are a little bit wider
than the average notebook and I like
having like more space but like the
covers of these journals are just so
pretty I can't like resist it let me
know if you have an archer a novel
notebook and if you like it I mean I'm
sure you do because they're amazing but
yeah oh my god perfect amount of colors
so I'll just keep that top one black so
I'm not repeating colors and I think I
was definitely supposed to make these a
little bit longer but whatever
cool so I'll just like outline this in a
thick thing and then highlight this and
then the rest are gonna look a little
bit different which i think is cool
because this is like major okay so the
next spread is gender predictions so I'm
just going to write down all of the cute
little games that I'll be playing later
and then check them off if it was good
for a boy or a girl and then my verdict
will be down below and then I'm keeping
this page blank because I really want to
paint in this journal because a lot of
people paint in our turn all of
notebooks because the paper is so thick
like it's good for watercolor paints so
that's also another reason why I wanted
to get this journal because I want to
start water coloring more I literally
never paint anymore since I got my iPad
so I want to do that more and I just
feel like it would make the journal a
little bit more special if it had some
artwork of mine in it but yeah so that's
what I plan on doing with this blank
page on the side
and I don't know what I'm gonna paint
but probably something baby-related
alright so with each game or like there
a lot of them aren't really games
they're just like things I'm gonna use a
color and fill it in if it is favoring a
boy or a girl so that I will do later so
this is the first trimester like a cover
page if you will like I said I wanted to
keep it really simple and I also want to
get some stickers as well so if you guys
know of any shops that carry like
stickers that are like floral type and
have like muted tones and that kind of
style drop a comment and let me know
because I want to get some pretty
stickers that way I don't have to like
doodle a lot because you all know I
don't have time for that
just kidding I do but I want to use
stickers in this journal so it feels
like kind of like a scrapbook as well
and then this is going to be my first
initial reaction spread so I'm just
going to write down like a little diary
entry if you will and this is where it
gets kind of like I don't know I wanted
to gift this to my son or daughter when
they turn 18 because it will have like
all the pregnancy stuff not that they
really care that much about that I feel
like but I'm also going to do like
monthly updates for when they're like
babies and have like photos and stuff so
this will kind of be like their baby
book but I don't know like I'm writing
down my first initial reaction and to be
honest with you guys it's not a great
one like I wasn't super excited about it
not that I'm not excited now but like
you know what I mean
and I don't want them just like read
that and be like I don't want them to
read that and be sad about it so I'm
still like contemplating on if I'm going
to actually gift this to them when they
get older or if I'm just gonna keep it
for myself I think it kind of depends on
if it's a girl or a boy because I feel
like a boy wouldn't really care or want
something like this I mean they would
like appreciate it I feel like but I
feel like a girl would appreciate it a
little bit more and actually want to
have it so we'll see what happens it's a
long way from now so okay so this is the
first trimester spread basically what
I'm doing here is I'm writing down the
months so my first trimester is gonna
span from October to December and then I
think right here I'm going to do a mood
tracker and then down here I'm going to
do like a symptoms tracker so you'll
guys will see what it looks like when
I'm done with it
but basically just gonna track my
symptoms and just cuz I feel like it
would be cool to see how my symptoms
change and stuff but and then I might do
a sleep tracker if I have enough space I
sketched out most of the spreads but
this one I didn't finish so I'm just
gonna have to make it up as I go along
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okay so as you guys saw that took a
thousand years and I didn't really know
how to do like the trackers because it
was over the course of like three months
so I came up with this thing first and I
basically just wrote down each date and
then I realized that I could do a graph
like this so I was like okay I'll just
do it for this one and then next in the
next trimester I'll do both of them like
this and then I realized that with this
one you can't have two things on one day
but with this one you can so I'm going
to switch these I hope that makes sense
so for the mood tracker I'm gonna have
it on this one because I'm only gonna
have like one mood per day but with the
symptoms I'm gonna have way more than
one symptom per day so I'll be able to
fill in more than one a day on this one
so I grabbed some craft paper and I'm
just gonna quickly cover these up
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now that that's covered up this is gonna
be the mood tracker okay
so honestly I think that looks better
than what I had before anyways I didn't
really like the headers that I did so
works out so now I'm going to make my
key Moody and not okay
guys I'm a mess right now oh that looks
so bad okay now for down here I was
gonna use this for the whole like
whiteout down here because I have to do
different stuff but now that I just saw
what that looks like I'm just gonna put
this down at the bottom
okay so the symptoms then I'm gonna
write is fatigue nausea nausea okay I'll
do nausea and then vomiting I'm so sorry
about this you guys some pregnancy stuff
is just not cute back aches cramps and
what else is a symptom sore boobs and I
think that's all I'm gonna do for now
okay so this is what it looks like I am
a mess so this is what it looks like
right here what I'm gonna do is I'm
gonna have a little weight gain station
just to see how much weight I have
gained so right now I am 107 pounds just
weighed myself and then we'll see what I
am at the end which I probably won't
gain anything because you don't really
gain much in the first trimester but
that is what this looks like so the last
spread that I'm gonna make is my weekly
spread so to speak so it's going to be
week five
and for this one since I have so many
liked trackers and basically all the
stuff that I like will be writing down
like statistics and stuff I'm really
just gonna leave this blank and kind of
just like use it as a journal page so I
might write some stuff to draw some
pictures I need to get some film from my
Polaroid camera so I can take a photo
and probably paste that in here but yeah
right now this is just gonna be blank
and probably in the next pregnancy
update you guys will see what the spread
looks like so let me just do a quick
flip through I'm gonna get some stickers
later and definitely decorate this but
for right now this is what it looks like
and probably like other stuff that I get
like receipts or you know just like
random stuff I'll probably paste in here
and then here's the countdown this one's
gonna be a lot more colorful as well as
the week's go on
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so that is the flip through don't forget
to let me know any shop suggestions you
guys have for pretty like floral
stickers and like kind of muted tones
yeah let me know down below because I
need to go on a sticker shopping spree
and get a lot of decorations for this
journal so I actually ended up going
through my stickers and I found some
stuff that would go so quickly
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the great
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there we go that's pretty maybe I'll use
this for the first trimester second and
third good idea
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so that's it for the pregnancy journal
setup I don't know what's going on with
my hair thank you guys for watching I
hope you enjoyed it and don't forget to
let me know if you want to see more
videos like this don't forget to
subscribe if you enjoyed it and if you
want to see the rest of my pregnancy
journey but yeah I think that's it thank
you guys again for watching and I will
see you guys in the next one bye
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